 tropical cyclone season. National Hurricane Director Michael Brennan says islands near the Caribbean Sea are in its path. Farrell is expected to be a dangerous major hurricane when it moves through the Windward Islands late Sunday night or Monday, bringing potentially destructive hurricane force winds on the eyewall, life-threatening storm surge. We have hurricane watches and warnings in effect for the Windward Islands. Farrell grew rapidly from a tropical depression to a tropical storm and finally into a hurricane within 24 hours.